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VOLUME XXI
NUMBER 35
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By Don Moffatt
THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER~^~1966
Schools All Local Foresters
Set To Open Won Hood
Forest Fire
September 6
Garden Club Helps Beautify City
■
Logging,OSUStudy Reveals
Horse Still Useful for Some
Old dobbin still has a place
School bells will start to
The Lakes Ranger District’s
in certain logging operations, a 110-acre research area near
ring around the nation next
worse fire of the 1966 season
according to a research report Gates where there was a
The 1966-67 school year will blackened approximately 1200 ■
week. Schools in this area will
published by the Oregon State dense stand of Douglas-fir
commence
with
several
mark
open their doors Tuesday,
acres of Douglas Fir and >
University Forest Research trees about 40 years old. Av
Sept. 6th, the day after Labor ed improvements within the Hemlock timber. Since the (
Laboratory.
Mill City-Gates School district. Devils Ridge fire started, a-
Day.
erage log size was 8.3 inches
The OSU study concerned diameter. Kenneth and Frank
The
elementary
and
primary
Labor Day is the last big
( bout $60,000 in timber has
commercial
thinning
in
Doug-
holiday of the season, or so schools have had some inter been destroyed.
Bain did the logging and Mrs.
las-fir with a horse and was Kenneth
it has been in years past. esting physical changes. Li It is believed that the fire
Bain, kept the books.
directed by Alan Berg, OSU
This is when parents and stu braries at both buildings have was man-caused. This has
All
expenses
in the thinning
forest ecologist.
dents alike take advantage of been extensively renovated, been true of 12 of the 13
operation were carefully re
OSU
researchers
found
that
the last long weekend before many new library books ad fires in the Mt. Hood National i
duriqg the test period.
the cost of owning and main corded
school. They take off for their ded, and additional shelving Forest.
Direct
cost
of getting the logs
taining a horse based on a out of the woods
favorite haunts, to enjoy their built. Students at both build Approximately 700 Forest
to the land
working
life
of
eight
years
did
ings will be able to utilize Service regulars, Bureau of
favorite outdoor sport.
ing came to $25.23 per thous
not
exceed
$1.50
a
day.
Two
I presume there will be the these facilities much more Land Management employees,
board feet, the OSU re
The
men, using a small power saw and
usual slaughter on our high-; this year due to having a full- regional and inter-regional have a project
port indicated.
to fell the trees and a horse
ways. This would not be nec time librarian at the Mill City suppression crews, logging
The research paper is avail
essary if each and every per Elementary school and a company crews and others On the corner coming into town from the west they to yard the logs, could bring able by writing to the Forest
2,100
board
feet
to
the
land
have planted flowers on the vacant lot owned by Mert
son would not take undue teacher aid under the super were on the fire.
Research Laboratory, Oregon
ing for each eight hour day. State
chances with their lives and vision of a certified teacher at
University, Corvallis.
Those going from the Mill Cox of Stayton. All this takes time, but they can
Berg
explained
that
the
stu
the lives of others when they the Gates Primary school.
City ranger station were May be seen at work on their project. They even enlisted dy was undertaken to solve
Students in grade 1 through nard Smith, Joe TerLouw and the aid of Woody Heller to man the power mower to
get behind the wheel of their
cut gras» so the flowers can be seen. Others in the some of the problems of man
car. A word of advice would 3 will be attending school at Louis Waikart.
aging young merchantable
be to stay closer to their Gates and students in grades
The high line fire has been picture are Mrs. Heller, Mrs. Jesse Haywood, and Mrs. stands of timber. Many areas
home area, and not try to 4 through 8 will attend at Mill controlled and cooler weather Floyd Fleetwood.—The Mill City Enterprise photo.
in Oregon are at an age when
make too long a trip. This is City.
has aided fire conditions but
sawlogs,
pulpwood, poles and
Most faculty members have warmer weather or a shift In
one of the things that tends
piling arc able to give the
Santiam High school opens
Alice Smith Attends
to make motorists drive like attended special work shops wind might start the huge
landowner a profit or pay for Sept. 6, with a full comple
the devil was after them. It this sumer. Next week’s En- blaze again.
the costs of thinning timber ment of staff with two new
would also help if they would teryprise will carry a com i-
_________________
Librarian Institute
stands, he noted.
teachers, Miss Judith Kay
stay in line when approaching plete story on faculty mem
Part of the problem of small Parent, Business teacher, and
Miss Alice M. Smith, from
slow traffic, especially if bers and their work this sum 1‘ Wrong Fire Dept.
landowners is that expensive Robert Williams, Science and
there is insufficient clearance mer.
Given Credit for
Mill City, librarian for Mill
I The proposed bus schedule City Elementary school, has equipment and complicated Math. Don Williams will have
Many hew students, begin
for a safe pass. Of course
methods of logging can’t be the additional duty of football
those slow drivers, pulling ning and transferred, have re Saving Mrs. Merryfield | for this school year, starting
Last week The Enterprise September 6 will be as fol just completed eight weeks as profitably used. This is when assistant.
trailers and boats could help gistered to attend the Mill
a participant in the Institute the horse is ideally suited for
School will open with regis
a lot if they would be cour City-Gates schools this Sep stated in a front page story lows:
teous enough to pull off to tember. Vernon Peterman has that the Mehama Fire depart
for Librarianship at the Uni use in getting small trees out tration and payment of fees
of
the
forest,
Berg
said.
The
i
on Sept. 6. There will be an
the side of the road when they requested that if there are ment had assisted Don Merry Verne Peterman, grade versity of Oregon.
report noted that a horse can i
see a long string of cars piled children planning to attend field by giving oxygen to his school principal, said that
The Institute, held under a move several small logs or one i assembly and a short run of
up behind them. Many of school here that they register wife when he was taking her
National Defense Education large log easily; the horse is i classes during the afternoon
of the sixth.
these drivers do, but then at their earliest convenience. to Santiam Memorial hospital. there might be some changes Act grant, was on “The Li quick
to learn and become
again, all it takes is one “bull The Mill City Elementary of The credit rightfully goes to made in the bus schedules. brarian and Contemporary
Enrollment should be up
adept at hauling logs out of i this year at Santiam because
headed” driver to spoil a fice is open from 8 a. m. to the Lyons Fire department. Parents will be notified.
Educational Challenges.’’ It difficult places.
<
whole weekend. It would 4:30 p. m. each day Monday Carl Anderson drove the car
of a large incoming Freshman
Morris—Bus. No. 1—Leaves was directed by Margaret The study was conducted on < class of approximately 70 stu
to the hospital and Cecil
seem to me that patrolmen through Friday.
Lane,
assistant
professor
of
would be doing the world a
School doors will open for Grimes administered the oxy at 7:15 going directly west to librarianship at the Univer
dents. Enrollment will prob
Snyders—7:25 (hwy entrance) sity of Oregon.
favor if they would haul full attendance Tuesday, Sep gen.
ably reach the 200 mark. Last
Hunter
Safety
Course
them off to one side and give tember 6. The hot lunch pro Mrs. Merryfield has since returning via N.W. River
year’s enrollment fell off to
Nationally
-
known
author
them a lecture on the live grams will begin operation on been transferred to Bess Kai- j Road and N.W. Alder and N. ities on librarianship and To Start Here Friday
181 at the closing of school.
E.
Alder
continuing
East
to
ser
hospital
in
Portland.
and let live way of life. I the opening date with meal
consultants from various sec There will be classes for the The curriculum this year
Grants
Cafe
—
7:40
(Savages).
guess we can’t expect every prices remaining the same as
tions of the United States Hunter Safety Course at the will be somewhat the same ex
At this point Bus No. 1 trans were
thing of the patrolman, as last year.
lecturers dur Mill City elementary school, cept that the teachers will
Col. Willis A. Potter fers
all 1 thru 3 grade stu ing the visiting
starting Friday, September 2 have a huge supply of films
they will have their hands
session.
Away Tuesday dents to Bus No. 7 and re Fifty participants, represent-1 [at 7 p. m.
ftdl this weekend.
and film strips, and all the
Weather, Detroit Dam Passes
Relatives received word ceives all of No. 7 4th thru
All hunters under the age of
7 a. m. Daily Weather Reading that Col. Willis A. Potter 12th grade. Approx. 75 pupils. ing 16 states, attended the In- ' 17 need this course before equipment needed under the
Now we get back to that
“Project Springboard” pro
stitute, which featured a fully
Pool
can
hunt. They will be gram to enhance and make
old bugaboo, inflation. It Date Max. Min. Elev. Pep. (ret.) of Carmel, Calif., passed Bus No. 1 goes directly to Mill equipped educational media I they
f
ney
c
----
1 a safety card at the the instructional program
would appear to me that our Aug. 24 78 51 1555.99 0.00 away Tuesday morning at the City Elementary (7:50) and laboratory for individual and; II ss
\*e“
Santiam. Picks up all students group research projects.
: end of the course if they com- more interesting and mean
government could do more Aug. 25 75 52 1555.74 0.00 Army Hospital at Fort Ord.
I plete it satisfactorily.
Funeral services will be in S.E. section of M.C. (from
toward curbing inflation by Aug. 26 72 52 1555.82 0.05
ingful to students.
held Saturday at 2:00 p. m. 1st street E. to Gravel Pit
[ Tom Drynan and Ronald
cutting out unnecessary Aug. 27 59
Wednesday, Sept. 7 will be
53 1555.25 0.02 at Weddle Funeral Home Junction an dfrom S.E. Fair
: Lindsay will conduct the normal school day with regu
spending, rather than adopt-. Aug. 28 66 50 1555.02 0.07
view
St.
to
Maple
St.)
return
j
course.
ing a tight money policy. A I Aug. 29 68 47 1554.78 0.00, in Stayton with interment in
lar operation of classes.
ing to M.C. schools 8:13 with
“big brother” approach to all[ Aug. 30 64 47 1554.55 0.08 Lone Oak Cemetery.
Buses will run Tuesday at
primary students transferring
our economic pains is not the I
the
regular time. Registration
Manning
Gets
Forest
to Bus No. 7. Last child dis
answer. If we could get off
materials will be picked up at
New
Rock
Creek
Bridge
charged
at
8:15.
i
Service
Cone
Contract
this kick of social reforms of
the office and a team of four
The Manning Seed Com teachers will register each of
the “great society” and loos
Worley—Bus No. 2—Leaves
pany was awarded the con the four classes.
en up on money, our building
[ M.C. at 7:20 going West on
tract to coilect 450 pounds of
economy would again gain
Hwy. to Fox Valley School.
momentum and Simpson’s
Some students attending Douglas Fir tree seed for the Petersons To Show
I Returns to S.W. Kingwood
might get back to a five-day
Oregon
State University this Detroit Ranger District. It is
and continues on S.W. King-
estimated that 900 bushels of
week, which certainly would
wood to S. First Ave. and re coming year will be able to Douglas Fir cones will be Pictures at Grange
be a boon to many in this
turning to Santiam and Mill pay their college bills with needed to provide the amount Meeting Friday Night
area.
City Elementary (approx. 65 the help of Uncle Sam’s new of seed. The seed collected I The Santiam Valley Grange
I believe we need less con
pupils.) Last pupil unloaded est financial aid program.
year will be utilized for will hold its regular meeting
trol of private credit and a
at Mill City Elementary 8:13 No-need-to-repay cash grants this
the establishment of new at the Lyons Grange hall on
tight control on public spend
a.m
are provided under the Econ plantations
Friday, Sept. 2 when Mr. and
in 1967.
ing. The more money the gov
omic Opportunity Grant Pro
Mrs. Ervin Peterson will
Information
concerning
the
ernment pours into govern
Vetters—Bus No. 3—Leaves gram. Oregon State received
show pictures they took on a
ment spending the more in
Gates at 7:15 a.m., picks up $196,000 to award this year restricted and open cone col recent
trip to England.
flated our economy becomes,
students on Linn Co. side of in the “cash for college” plan. lection areas may be obtained
and it augments our false
river going East to Bo Her This program was okayed from the District Ranger Sta Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hince will
boom. Some day, probably af
rons with side roads at Mad by Congress in the Higher tion and from the Manning j host the event and there will
cone buyer, Earl Michaelson, ! l>e a potluck following the
ter it is too late, our Wash
Creek and at Pennicks. Re Education Act of 1965.
meeting.
Those attending are
.
ington big wigs will wake up
turns to the Gates School at
Details of the program can Detroit. Cone picking permits asked,
if
possible, to bring
may
be
obtained
from
Mr.
I
to the fact that you can’t
8:00, transfers approx. 30 stu be obtained from the OSU Of
“English type” dishes.
spend your way into prosper
dents 4th thru 12th to Bus fice of Financial Aids which Michaelson.
ity-
7. Bus No. 3 continues is directed by Richard E. Pa-
This is one of the bridges built following the big No.
west
on Linn Co. side picking hre. The office is located in
Seen on the streets across Uood and is located south of the highway bridge which up all students on main thor the lower level of Erna Plege- Rock Creek Area Near Mill
and
also
was
washed
out.
This
new
concrete
bridge
replaces
from the bakery Tuesday fore
oughfare and side roads ,Hen- man Hall, the student health
noon. . . . Mrs. Harry White an old log bridge.—The Mill City Enterprise photo,
ness, Rock Creek Rd., Gravel service.
giving a garden rake a real
Pit d.) to Mill City schools.
The Economic Opportunity
work-out cleaning up weeds
Approx. 52 unloaded and 17 Grant Program is unique in
Thinning Road Being Constructed
along the sidewalk, Maybe
to go to Gates Primary. Picks that to receive a cash grant,
she’s giving the young fellows
up 35 first, second, and third the student must receive fin
who are hired to keep that
graders at the Mill City Elem- ancial aid from other institut-
portion of the grounds neat
tary (those living within a i o n a 11 y administered pro
and clean a lesson on how to
few blocks plus primary stu grams in an amount equal to
use muscles. Maybe she will
dents from Bus No. 2; with or in excess of the grant.
have some luck. I’ve been try
this load he returns to Gates.
Scholarships, loans and in
ing all summer to get some ac
Last students disembark at stitutional employment (but
tion on weeds in gutters and
8:25 a.m.
not college workstudy), may
streets, with only moderate
be used to provide matching
success. Really what she was
Knuts en—Bns. No. 7 — funds.
doing was cleaning up a place
Leaves Gates at 7:15, crosses
EOG, as it is known, pro
for an archery range for her
to Marion Co. and driving east I vides cash grants to assist
students when school opens.
picks up students enroute to «tudents with exceptional fi
Little Sweden, returns west, nancial need who for lack of
taking side roads driving on financial means of their own
hwy. to Grants Cafe (7:40) or their families would find
Pre-School To Be
where Bus No. 3 exchanges it difficult to remain in or en
1st, 2nd and 3rd grade stu ter college.
Held in Scout Cabin
dents to Bus No. 7 for all 4th
To be eligible for an Educa
This picture shows the heavy stand of Douglas
Pre-schoolers in this area
thrue 12th. Bus No. 7 then tional Opportunity cash grant,
fir
trees
on a State Forest Research area in the Rock
may attend classes at the
returns on back road to Gates, a student must demonstrate
Scout Cabin in the City Park,
over to the Gates School, un exceptional financial need, be Creek district. This area was logged with a horse. This
starting Sept. 13 at 8’30. Mrs.
thinning road is being built by the State For loading 1st thru 3rd and tak admitted to college, show aca method was chosen so it could be selective logged, with
Florence More will be the tea estry This
all 4th thru 8th students demic promise, be reasonably a minimum of damage to other trees. Forester George
Department to open up another thinning sale east ing
cher and pre-school hours will
from Bus No. 3. Bus No. 3 expected to continue a course Schoppert said this area is producing good trees now.
and
south
of
Gates.
When
completed
this
road
will
he from 8:30 until 11:30 a. m.
goes directly to the Mill City of study until graduation, be The logging on this project was done by Kenneth and
For more information those connect up with the old Hammond Railroad grade, Schools. Loads with remain a full time student and be a Frank Bain, with Mrs. Bain keeping a close check on
interested may call Mrs. Ro where it can be used to continue the road to other thin ing 1st thru 3rd from Bus No. U.S. citizen or have an immi costs for the State Forestry Department.—The Mill
ning sales in the future.—The Mill City Enteprise photo 1 and returns to Gates School. grant visa.
bert Music at 897-2558.
City Enterprise Photo.
Two New Teachers
Join Santiam Staff
Proposed Bus
Routes Published
Cash For College
Offered to Needy
By New U. S. Plan